“In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We are at home in our games because it is the only place we know just what we are supposed to do,”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. —Albert… — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think… — Robert Zaretsky Copy Share Image
“The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power. Albert Camus” — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” ― Albert Camus” — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“Lazareff believed that "a journalists first duty is to be read," but Camus felt it was to tell the truth as much… — Olivier Todd Copy Share Image
“Camus felt defenseless against these “deep forces rising within me that said ‘no.’ ” No, in a word, to plans for the… — Robert Zaretsky Copy Share Image
“Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“A sweeping vista of Northern sky opens up between the warehouses and hangs motionless above the cobbled streets. It’s a world of… — Neil Schiller Copy Share Image
“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Myth of Sisyphus makes us wonder if we too are like the ones who are so distracted making friends with important… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You will not be remembered if you die now. You will be buried and mourned by a few, and what more can… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“When I first read The Rebel, this splendid line came leaping from the page like a dolphin from a wave. I memorized… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“La lucha por llegar a las cumbres basta para llenar un corazón de hombre. Hay que imaginarse a Sísifo feliz.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
![“[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/catherine-camus-12238_albert_albert-camus-was-not-an-existentialist-5_524863.jpg)
![“We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/catherine-camus-12238_remember_we-must-remember-that-albert-camus-wrote_1911909.jpg)
![“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_you-end-up-beating-your-head-against-a-w_1547558.jpg)
![“[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_albert-camus-started-thinking-through-se_1084847.jpg)
![“The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/catherine-camus-12238_able_the-first-man-is-albert-camus-posthumous_1989492.jpg)
![“I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/catherine-camus-12238_able_i-think-for-albert-camus-his-mother-was_1741638.jpg)
![“I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers himself an artist, and so he takes on the responsibility of speaking for those who are not given the means or the opportunity.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/catherine-camus-12238_art_i-couldn-t-ever-act-or-think-on-behalf-o_48718.jpg)
![“We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/982/catherine-camus-12238_book_we-can-t-talk-about-the-book-albert-camu_131209.jpg)
![“Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/catherine-camus-12238_camus_love-is-very-important-in-the-first-man_2369710.jpg)
![“Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/catherine-camus-12238_camus_where-albert-camus-is-in-exile-isn-t-esp_787803.jpg)
